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Q: How is Hepatitis C transmitted?
asked by: DoctorQuestion on February 14th, 2007
Can someone get hepitiis c from being bitten by someone who tests positive for hep c...20 yrs ago, skin broken,...allergic reaction to tetnis series only had one of three


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Dr. Nikola Gjuzelov , MD
replied on February 23rd, 2007
Liver Disorders, Hepatitis A/B/C Answer A2388
The Hepatitis C virus can be transmitted parenteraly, which means that the virus has to reach your blood circulation in order to infect you. Ways of transmitting the disease are: using the same needle as an infected drug-abuser; blood transfusions; unprotected sex; from mother to fetus, and contact to infected blood through damaged skin. In the case of injuries, this means that the skin has to be injured by a wound and the wound must come in contact with someone’s infected blood.
In your case, it depends if the person who bit you was positive for hepatitis C at the moment of contact and if you touched blood with an open wound.



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